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 CONTENTS.

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 * Physiognomy of the Nose.
 * Etymology of the Nose.

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 * Specialists in Egypt.
 * Herodotus' Account of Them.
 * The Breath of Life.
 * The Papyros Ebers.
 * The Exodus of the Jews.
 * Penalties for Malpractice.

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 * The Records of Magic.
 * Their Introduction in Rome.
 * The Medicine of the Market Place.
 * Stercoraceous Drugs.
 * Witch Medicine.
 * Pliny and the Therapy of the Magi.
 * Its Contact with Greek Medicine.
 * The Zend Avesta and the Medicine of the Parsees.

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 * Diphtheria Among the Babylonian Jews.
 * The Relation to the Zend Avesta.
 * Tracheotomy.
 * Nasal Polyp and Ozaena.

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 * Its Puzzling Chronology.
 * Its Relation to Greek Medicine.
 * Susruta and Hippocrates.
 * Reference in the Rig Veda to Tracheotomy.
 * Charaka Samhita.
 * The Trace of Humoral Pathology.
 * Uvulotomy and Tonsillotomy.
 * Rhinoplasty.
 * Vaporizations and Fumigations and the Intranasal Use of Oil.
 * Sternutatories.
 * Foreign Bodies in the Throat.
 * Fracture of the Nose.
 * The Physiognomy of Death.

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 * Its Oriental Derivation.
 * Its Occidental Transformation.
 * Civilization in Greece.
 * Ancestry of Hippocrates.
 * Greek Medicine at the Siege of Troy.
 * The Nose and Throat in Homer.
 * Etymology of Greek Words for Throat.
 * Pharynx, Larynx.
 * Drink in the Larynx.
 * Early Greek Superstition.
 * The Early Philosophers and Their Ideas of Anatomy of the Nose and Throat and the Eustachian Tube.
 * Goats Breathing through their Ears.
 * The Atomic Theory and its Relation to Voice Production and Hearing.